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Re: Drop OS X 10.4
From: |
Jan Djärv |
Subject: |
Re: Drop OS X 10.4 |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Oct 2014 19:13:09 +0200 |
Hello.
10 okt 2014 kl. 18:18 skrev Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:
> Glenn Morris wrote:
>> I suggest Emacs support for OS X 10.4 be explicitly dropped.
>> The OS itself is unsupported for 5 years.
>
> Yes. The general guideline in GNU packages is that when a platform's
> supplier no longer supports the platform, the GNU package doesn't need to
> support it either. This is a reasonable guideline for Emacs too, e.g., our
> recent dropping support for IRIX 6.5 after SGI stopped support. Since Apple
> has also dropped support for OS X 10.5 and 10.6, we should probably drop
> support for these versions as well.
I would not want to drop 10.6, it still has significant usage, 18% in March
according to:
http://www.macrumors.com/2014/03/27/os-x-mavericks-adoption-50/
Also, I have a 10.6 machine. 26.1 would perhaps be reasonable.
Jan D.
- Drop OS X 10.4, Glenn Morris, 2014/10/10
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Juergen Fenn, 2014/10/11
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Bozhidar Batsov, 2014/10/11
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Glenn Morris, 2014/10/11
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Jan Djärv, 2014/10/12
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Paul Eggert, 2014/10/12
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Jan Djärv, 2014/10/12
- Re: Drop OS X 10.4, Glenn Morris, 2014/10/12